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The attached Excel provides all the OTA channels as discovered by doctor j on 8/24/11.

There are some 3,862 records, ordered by your Local-Into-Local or DIRECTV Network number. If you do not know your LIL Network number, see the TPN Map thread. In the Excel posted is a tab or 'sheet' labeld "LIL Market List" that will give you all the information you need.

gct, thanks for compiling this information. You guys do a hellava job on these lists!

One question for this transponder map... In the previous OTA version back in December, we could see the virtual (display) channel as well and the actual RF channel. Is that info still there?

It may be useful to some people looking to tune in OTA channels not included in the guide data.

Attached is the OTA data for folks served by DIRECTV-LA (thats Latin America).

Data is from data collected by Eduardo on 8/15/11. As I understand it, the AM21 is just now beginning to be marketed to the LatinAm market. I'm sure we will see much growth in this area as AM21 sales begin to move.

The attached Excel provides all the OTA channels as discovered by doctor j on 8/24/11.

There are some 3,862 records, ordered by your Local-Into-Local or DIRECTV Network number. If you do not know your LIL Network number, see the TPN Map thread. In the Excel posted is a tab or 'sheet' labeld "LIL Market List" that will give you all the information you need.

Further to my previous message from August 9th, I just sent a follow-up message to Tribune/zap2it.com advising that all of the following neighboring Canadian stations are now broadcasting in digital form, and receivable via antenna here in metro Detroit, as a result of last night's mandatory Canadian digital conversion deadline:

My message to Tribune/zap2it.com again advised that I am a DirecTV subscriber in the metro Detroit DMA using the AM21 over-the-air receiver, and am hoping that all of these stations and their program guide data will be shown in my AM21 on-screen guide shortly as part of the available metro Detroit over-the-air station listings.

I know I am beating a dead horse by posting in this utterly useless thread, but WGNO-DT2 26.2 on UHF 26 in New Orleans has been on the air and listed on zap2it/TMS since the beginning of the year and it still not in the DIRECTV database. It is pure fantasy that anyone from DIRECTV has ever seen this thread. This thread should be locked and deleted.

Will you post if you get it to work? I think there are many of us that are looking for the secret to get our local channels added.

DMA - Detroit, MI

Further to my previous message from August 9th, I just sent a follow-up message to Tribune/zap2it.com advising that all of the following neighboring Canadian stations are now broadcasting in digital form, and receivable via antenna here in metro Detroit, as a result of last night's mandatory Canadian digital conversion deadline:

My message to Tribune/zap2it.com again advised that I am a DirecTV subscriber in the metro Detroit DMA using the AM21 over-the-air receiver, and am hoping that all of these stations and their program guide data will be shown in my AM21 on-screen guide shortly as part of the available metro Detroit over-the-air station listings.

This is an updated OTA/LIL listing. There were some glitches in the previous post of 8/24 OTA data. This version also provides both the RF channel and the virtual (display) channel.

We learned that we must run the binary interpretation software with the specific OTA option get the full data records.

This run also corrected a record error with Network 677 and 678.

Regrettably, only OTA data is provided. A combination of OTA and LIL records causes the Excel to exceed file size limitations.

I got a chance to browse trough this data and found that NET 647 through NET 661 are missing the RF channel in the TPN column. It looks like the NET #'s were copied into the TPN column.

Another interesting note... I see there is no listing in the table for MNT affiliate KPDX, channel 49 in Portland, OR. It is definitely available in DIRECTV's OTA guide data as I have guide data for it and can tune to it with the AM-21. All the other PDX data seems correct.

I got a chance to browse trough this data and found that NET 647 through NET 661 are missing the RF channel in the TPN column. It looks like the NET #'s were copied into the TPN column.

Another interesting note... I see there is no listing in the table for MNT affiliate KPDX, channel 49 in Portland, OR. It is definitely available in DIRECTV's OTA guide data as I have guide data for it and can tune to it with the AM-21. All the other PDX data seems correct.

Thanks gct

Beavs,

i am sorry about the errors. We had moved to new binary interpreter software - and as often happens, it had some bad hiccup problems.

I replaced last week's TPN MAP with one that was created with an earlier software version. And the present, 9/8 TPN MAP has been created with an earlier software version too. The problems in that new software were also reflected in the OTA data.

NOW: doctor j just this morning (9/9) has re-run the binary data using yet more updated (and hopefully corrected) software. I hope later today or tomorrow to have a whole new run, in a little different format, ready to post.

i am sorry about the errors. We had moved to new binary interpreter software - and as often happens, it had some bad hiccup problems.

I replaced last week's TPN MAP with one that was created with an earlier software version. And the present, 9/8 TPN MAP has been created with an earlier software version too. The problems in that new software were also reflected in the OTA data.

NOW: doctor j just this morning (9/9) has re-run the binary data using yet more updated (and hopefully corrected) software. I hope later today or tomorrow to have a whole new run, in a little different format, ready to post.

KUBEDT5 57.5 is now airing in the Houston, TX market, but, of course, is nowhere to be found via the AM21.

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We recently had an OTA antenna installed. Live in Winter Haven, Fl which is about 50 miles from Tampa and 40 miles from Orlando. The antenna picks up all of the stations in both cities (when connected directly to the TV) but only Tampa when connected to our HR20. I know that Tampa is our DirectV DMA but we actually live closer to Orlando as far as news and weather are concerned. Does Directv block our reception thru the HR20 for Orlando?

We recently had an OTA antenna installed. Live in Winter Haven, Fl which is about 50 miles from Tampa and 40 miles from Orlando. The antenna picks up all of the stations in both cities (when connected directly to the TV) but only Tampa when connected to our HR20. I know that Tampa is our DirectV DMA but we actually live closer to Orlando as far as news and weather are concerned. Does Directv block our reception thru the HR20 for Orlando?

Re-run your antenna setup and use a Tampa zip code as your primary market and then use an Orlando zip as the secondary. That will allow the HR20 to see both markets OTA.